"One of the most fancied performers in the Commons" Lynne Featherstone MP confirmed as Ashford Liberal Democrats Annual Dinner speaker

11.00.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Mon 1st Oct 2007

One of the most fancied MPs in the Commons is coming to Ashford

Ashford Liberal Democrats are delighted to announce that Lynne Featherstone MP will be the guest speaker at our annual dinner, being held from 7pm, on Friday 16th November 2007.

The Conningbrook, Kennington, will be the venue for Ashford Liberal Democrats premiere event of the year.

Do not miss your chance to see a vibrant and engaging speaker. Please reserve your place a place by contacting Jill Norris today on 01233 631349

About Lynne (and about our headline)...

Lynne Featherstone first contested the Hornsey and Wood Green seat at the 1997 General

Election. She finished in third place some 25,998 votes behind the winner Barbara Roche.

She again fought Hornsey and Wood Green at the 2001 General Election, moving into second place and reducing Roche's majority to 10,614. In one of the largest swings at the 2005 General Election, Featherstone ousted Roche with a majority of 2,395 votes.

Lynne Featherstone made her maiden speech in Parliament on May 24, 2005. She was appointed as a junior home affairs spokesperson by Charles Kennedy in 2005, and to the environment audit select committee. She was co-chair of Chris Huhne's unsuccessful campaign to be leader of the Liberal Democrats following the resignation of Kennedy in January 2006.

In March, following the election of Menzies Campbell as party leader, she was promoted to

number two in the Liberal Democrat home affairs team and made London spokesperson.

In December 2006, she succeeded Susan Kramer as the Liberal Democrat Shadow International Development Secretary, and two months later was succeeded by Tom Brake as London spokesperson.

Lynne Featherstone has quickly made a mark in Parliament. Despite being well over 50, she is regarded as one of the most attractive MPs in Westminster. At the Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton in 2006, she was named by the Sun as one of 5 "Lib Dem lovelies", and in a 2007 Sky News poll she was named 7th most fancied MP in the UK.

In 2006 she was shortlisted in the "Rising Stars" category of the Channel 4 political awards.

She has also been nominated for the prestigious Dods "Woman of the Year" award.